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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner applied the brakes on plans for an immigration overhaul amid rising expectations of progress—dealing a blow to the White House, a host of businesses and some fellow Republicans seeking to improve their party's standing with minority voters. We find that the GOP's latest ideas, including one to provide some legal status for most of the 11.5 million people living in the U.S. illegally, didn't cause as many complaints among rank-and-file party members as the prospect...